Se'are Mekonnen

Se'are Mekonnen (1954-22 June 2019) was Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian army from 7 June 2018 until his assassination on 22 June 2019 during a coup in the Amhara Region.

Biography
Se'are Mekonnen was born in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia in 1954, and he was a member of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front during the Ethiopian Civil War. Despite his partisan origins, he became an advocate for professionalism and ethnic and political neutrality in the armed forces, and he was appointed Army Chief of Staff in 2018. On 22 June 2019, he was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards during an attempted coup in the Amhara Region, and the bodyguard committed suicide to avoid capture.